The sacred topography of a monastic landscape and its development on the hilltop of Dra' Abu el-Naga / Upper Egypt: Deir el-Bakhit and the monastery of Apa Paulos in Western Thebes - pilot phase

修道院景观的神圣地形及其在 Dra Abu el-Naga/上埃及山顶的发展：底比斯西部的 Deir el-Bakhit 和 Apa Paulos 修道院 - 试点阶段

• 批准号: 232500198
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Günter Burkard
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen- Anhalt - Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/232500198?language=en
• 关键词: sacred; topography; monastic; landscape; its

The monastery of Deir el-Bachit in Western Thebes can, in all probability, be identified as the monastery of St. Paul, which is well-attested by papyrus documents. Evidence for this possible identification came from the names of abbots, which have been written on coptic ostraca. Approximately 400 meters east of the monastery is a hermitage, tomb No. XXVI, built in a pharaonic tomb. An inscription their names IX XC Paulos, who seemed to inhabit the tomb in Late Antiquity. An ancient path connects the hermitage directly with the monastery.The hypothesis is as follows: The hermit Paulos was intensely venerated and he received guests who left their names as graffiti on the walls of the pharaonic tomb. The veneration grew and led to the foundation of the monastery. The veneration of Paulos and the significance of the monastery as a local, regional or even a supraregional pilgrimage center should be apparent especially in the sacred center of the monastic community, the church. For this reason a pilot phase of one year aims to locate the church with the aid of geophysical methods. To verify the results of the geophysical measurements, it is important to accompany the prospections by small test excavations. In addition, an investigation will take place in the duration of the pilot phase, in order to establish if there was a place of worship or a chapel in the hermitage No. XXVI. In this case, the aim is to ascertain if this place of worship was retained or if it was abandoned in favour of a newly-constructed church inside the coenobitic monastery, which was inhabited from the end of the 6th to the beginning of the 10th century AD.

西底比斯的Deir el-Bachit修道院很有可能被认定为圣保罗修道院，这是由纸莎草文件证明的。这种可能的身份证明来自于写在科普特人的胸甲上的修道院院长的名字。修道院以东约400米处是一座修道院，第二十六号墓，建于法老墓中。他们的名字IX XC Paulos的铭文，谁似乎居住在古代晚期的坟墓。一条古老的小路将修道院与修道院直接连接起来。假设如下：隐士Paulos受到强烈的崇敬，他接待了在法老墓墙上涂鸦自己名字的客人。崇拜的增长，并导致了修道院的基础。对保罗的崇拜以及修道院作为地方、区域甚至超区域朝圣中心的重要性，在修道院社区的神圣中心--教堂--中尤其明显。因此，为期一年的试点阶段旨在借助地球物理方法确定教堂的位置。为了验证地球物理测量的结果，在勘探的同时进行小型试掘是很重要的。此外，将在试验阶段进行调查，以确定第二十六号修道院是否有礼拜场所或小教堂。在这种情况下，目的是确定这个礼拜场所是否被保留下来，或者是否被放弃，以便在公元6世纪末至公元世纪初居住的coenobitic修道院内新建一座教堂。